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All overheated, all madness: Xu Ke, Wang Jing, Liu Zhenwei, who is the king of the classic magic reform?

author:New World of Cinema

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"The Undefeated Rise of the East"

The film and television adaptation of classic literary works is a manual work, but also a profound technical work; playing with flowers in a room, playing with chicken feathers, absolutely can not retreat from the whole body.

Many of the famous directors who have come to the glorious and prosperous age of Hong Kong cinema have had the experience of adapting classic literary works and have also made many classic films; such as Hui Anhua's "Love in the Fallen City", Kwan Kam Peng's "Rouge Buckle", Cheng Xiaodong's "Ghost of Qiannu", and so on.

All overheated, all madness: Xu Ke, Wang Jing, Liu Zhenwei, who is the king of the classic magic reform?

It's all overheated, it's all madness.

This is the most classic description of the prosperous Hong Kong films and Hong Kong filmmakers, and this kind of overheaval and madness is often manifested in the film and television adaptation of classic masterpieces.

The normal filming of literary works into film and television dramas is called remake; and a very overheated and crazy remake can be called magic reform.

All overheated, all madness: Xu Ke, Wang Jing, Liu Zhenwei, who is the king of the classic magic reform?

So, in the prosperous era of Hong Kong films, Xu Ke, Wang Jing, Liu Zhenwei and other magic film masters, who is the king of magic reform in the classic original?

Because he directed "Gamble Saint" that helped Stephen Chow in 1990 and changed from Star Boy Overnight to Star Ye, Liu Zhenwei enjoyed a very high status in the field of nonsense comedy films.

Liu Zhenwei has always been known for his ghost horse madness, is a natural master of magic reform, the most famous masterpiece is the 1995 Zhou Xingchi Wu Mengda starring in the "Journey to the West", adapted from the Chinese classical masterpiece "Journey to the West".

All overheated, all madness: Xu Ke, Wang Jing, Liu Zhenwei, who is the king of the classic magic reform?

In "Journey to the West", there is a moonlight treasure box that can travel through time and space, and the supreme treasure of Sun Wukong's reincarnation falls in love with the Purple Xia Fairy who is illusioned by the wick in front of the Buddha's throne; in the mortal world, Sun Wukong, the Eight Precepts of the Pig and the Three Brothers of the Sand Monk are the leaders of the Axe Gang under the Five Peaks Mountain; the Spider Spirit and the White Bone Essence are the sisters of the master, Sun Wukong and the Cow Devil King's wife Princess Tiefan have had an affair, and the Tang monk's mouth is so broken that people can't stand it and commit suicide.

Because "Journey to the West" is too classic, the classic is so classic that the audience forgets that this is also "Journey to the West"; and it has the most fans and topics on the Internet, and has also led the adaptation boom of the same theme in the industry, which can be said to have played "Journey to the West" badly.

With this "Journey to the West" two-part series alone, Liu Zhenwei can nominate the King of Magic Reform.

All overheated, all madness: Xu Ke, Wang Jing, Liu Zhenwei, who is the king of the classic magic reform?

In addition, Liu Zhenwei has also directed "East into West", adapted from Jin Yong's martial arts novel "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter"; Liang Chaowei and Wang Fei starred in "The World Is Unmatched", adapted from the famous folk story/opera repertoire "Dragon Play Phoenix"; "Time-out To Love", which served as a screenwriter, with elements of crossing and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Liu Guanzhang's relationship has become very ambiguous, and so on.

All overheated, all madness: Xu Ke, Wang Jing, Liu Zhenwei, who is the king of the classic magic reform?

In addition, Liu Zhenwei's partner Wong Kar-wai's "East Evil and West Poison", the title and the name of the protagonist character are from Jin Yong's martial arts novel "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter", and he has also taken the initiative to pay the copyright fee to Mr. Jin Yong, but the plot of this movie has nothing to do with Jin Yong's original half-dime.

Wang Jing has been saddled with the notoriety of the king of bad films for many years, in fact, she has also made many classic films, and she has great insight into the film box office market and is a recognized ghost talent in the film industry.

Many of Wang Jing's films are plagiarized, including copying her own classics and repeatedly fried cold rice, but the magic changes the classics, and Wang Jing does have her own tricks.

All overheated, all madness: Xu Ke, Wang Jing, Liu Zhenwei, who is the king of the classic magic reform?

In 1992, wang jing directed and starred Chow Xingchi in the two parts of "Deer Dingji", which grossed more than 76 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong, which is definitely Wang Jing's magic reform masterpiece.

Mr. Jin Yong's original work of more than 1.5 million words was compressed into 2 movies by Wang Jing.

In order to match the progress of the plot, Wei Xiaobao, who was born in Yangzhou, was changed to the Jingcheng ren clan; his seven wives only arranged five, of which the most popular twins became a pair of twin sisters with a common heart, the wife of the Divine Dragon Sect Leader Su Quan became the Divine Dragon Sect Leader Long'er; Hai Dafu's bone sponge palm fused with the effect of corpse powder, which was infinitely powerful; Wu Yingxiong, played by Tang Zhenye, fused the identity of Zheng Ketuan, and the main villain Feng Xifan turned out to be Chen Jinnan's brother.

All overheated, all madness: Xu Ke, Wang Jing, Liu Zhenwei, who is the king of the classic magic reform?

1993's "The Demon Sect Leader of the Dragon Slayer" is another Jin Yong martial arts magic classic of Wang Jing, but unfortunately, the sequel was postponed indefinitely because of the box office. Until 2022, it was remade twice, changed to an online release, and the magic reform was more intense.

The "Dragon Slaughter record of Yi Tian" modified by Wang Jing' magic, the simple Zhang Wuji actually had the city government and ambitions, Zhang Sanfeng, who should have been a fairy wind Dao bone, was actually a fat old man with a hot temper, Zhou Zhiruo came up and colluded with Song Qingshu; the Shaolin Temple monk Yuanyin became famous by fighting with Zhang Wuji, the sense of existence exceeded that of all the empty character gods and monks, and the second elder huashan wearing a red cross vest became the funny person in the whole film.

All overheated, all madness: Xu Ke, Wang Jing, Liu Zhenwei, who is the king of the classic magic reform?

In 1994's "New Shaolin Five Ancestors", Wang Jing changed the Shaolin Five Ancestors to 5 children in order to meet the requirements of the film dealer, and the male protagonist was the adult Hong Xiguan played by Jet Li;

The 2005 drama series "Little Fish and Flowers" was adapted from Gu Long's "Absolute Double Glory", and as a result, the protagonists of the whole drama, except for the two brothers in the title, were all killed by the gender-changing villain Jiang Yuyan, and the actor Yang Xue also became famous; even Wang Jing also seconded characters such as the East Evil and West Poison of the Jin Yong martial arts world;

In the 2007 drama "Snow Mountain Flying Fox", the biggest magic change was to bring the big villain Tian Guinong, played by Tan Yaowen, to an exaggerated height, and at the same time practiced the Hu family sword method and the Miao family sword method, almost invincible in the world; finally, Miao Renfeng was forced to accept his dozens of moves, so that Hu Fei found flaws, and then won the thrill.

All overheated, all madness: Xu Ke, Wang Jing, Liu Zhenwei, who is the king of the classic magic reform?

In addition, Wang Jing has also filmed "New Six-Fingered Piano Demon", "Tang Bohu Rushing to the Clouds", "The Legend of the Tang Double Dragon", "Laughing Man Chu Liuxiang", "New Chu Liuxiang", "Eight Heroes" and other magic reform works, which are the kings of magic reform in terms of output and strength.

Wang Jing's film production is large because he has box office appeal, and the director who still won the trust of the filmmakers during the low tide of Hong Kong films, as well as the master of martial arts films, Xu Ke. Being able to lead the direction of such a billion-level giant production as "Chosin Lake" proves his strong strength and strong creative vitality.

All overheated, all madness: Xu Ke, Wang Jing, Liu Zhenwei, who is the king of the classic magic reform?

Xu Ke is known as a geek in the film industry

Nicknamed Xu Laowei, the imagination of the imagination is his signature, so the magic reform is also his housekeeping skill.

1992's "Chess King" is a feature film co-directed by Xu Ke and Yan Hao, and the biggest highlight is the fusion of the story of the two novels of the same name, "Chess King", and cleverly connects the protagonists of the two novels.

Although the story of the film respects the original work, this fusion is a very magical thing in itself.

All overheated, all madness: Xu Ke, Wang Jing, Liu Zhenwei, who is the king of the classic magic reform?

Of course, Xu Ke's most famous and successful magic reform is the martial arts movie "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu" trilogy, especially the last two, which are really changed to the kind that A-Ma does not know.

In 1992's "Smiling Pride II:Oriental Undefeated", Xu Ke ignored the strong opposition of the original author, Mr. Jin Yong, insisted on using Lin Qingxia to play Dongfang Undefeated, and became the biggest highlight of the whole film, and then led a wave of undefeated plagiarism and imitation in the film industry; the domineering men's clothing style and silk thread flying needles have not been surpassed so far.

All overheated, all madness: Xu Ke, Wang Jing, Liu Zhenwei, who is the king of the classic magic reform?

In the next "Undefeated Rise in the East", the Undefeated East has been upgraded to the undefeated East and West, and the empty hand can receive the shells of the Western Fleet; wooden ships can become submarines, not only can fly, but also go to the sea, and the light work of stepping on the waves has been very small, and the gods are incredible!

Seriously, such an "Oriental Undefeated", the original author Jin Yong absolutely can't recognize it!

All overheated, all madness: Xu Ke, Wang Jing, Liu Zhenwei, who is the king of the classic magic reform?

In addition, Xu Ke served as the producer or screenwriter of the "Ghost of Qiannu" trilogy, 1993's "New Crane Needle", 1994's "Burning Red Lotus Temple", 1995's "Sword", 2005's "Seven Swords", 2017's "Journey to the West Voldemort", and so on, all of which have been changed.

All overheated, all madness: Xu Ke, Wang Jing, Liu Zhenwei, who is the king of the classic magic reform?

On the classic degree of magic reform works, Liu Zhenwei and Xu Ke are on a par; among them, Liu Zhenwei's magic reform angle is more cunning and his lines are more modern; Xu Ke's magic reform is more divergent and his lines are more jianghu.

Whether it is the role or the plot, no Wang Jing can not find the angle of adaptation, it can be said that Wang Jing has no lower limit and no ceiling in the magic reform, it is simply unscrupulous; coupled with the advantages of the number and the intensity of the adaptation, Wang Jing has a better chance to become the king of the magic reform of Hong Kong films.

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